REPUBLIC Act No.10533 or the Enhanced Basic Education Act (EBEA) was signed into law by President Benigno Aquino III in 2013. One of its guiding principles is making Filipino graduates “globally competitive” in order to serve the needs of a “globalized environment.” It also paved the way for lengthening the basic education program to a total of 12 years from the current 10-year program. Students will now graduate at around the age of 18 after passing through a year of compulsory kindergarten, six years of elementary education and another six years of secondary education.
Contained in the EBEA are several curricular changes such as the spiral progression approach, putting up career tracks as part of the senior high school system and the Mother Tongue Based – Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) approach. One can venture into senior high school system career tracks into the Academic track which includes the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) strand and the Technical-Vocational Track.
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